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Comment by Kalx

Drops from the Heroic encounter against The Lich King in Icecrown Citadel, 10-man version.

Very solid tanking axe, complete with an blue socket. Orc warriors are going to love it.

Comment by hell77

Looks like shadowmourne isnt alone..

If you look closely, theres 2 goat skulls.. 1 bigger than other.. I think that resembles Father & Son...

Comment by Skinripper

Troggbane, Slayer of Trogdor, the Burninator

Comment by clampy

I'm just guessing that the 3D model is wrong in the look of the item. It is most likely going to look like one of the 10/25 DPS 1h axes that drop throughout ICC.

I doubt that they would use the model of the legendary for a 10 man drop.

EDIT: Not sure why this was down rated as it was correct and the 3D model was different that the in-game model. Some people just like to be rude for kicks.

Comment by kingbread

alright there should be no reasons that gnomes can't take back their cities now, we have an axe now designed to obliterate lvl 30 troggs,

Comment by thebitterfig

Orc warriors will love it to the extent that they'd prefer this axe to the mace from the 25 player mode. With a racial bonus covering the expertise, the dodge for the axe is stronger than the slightly increased parry and defense on the mace, with the dps difference meaning very little.

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Comment by Weaselcow

Only to be used by male gnomes with pink mohawks.

Comment by datar

horrible speed for a 1h tanking weapon

Comment by Luucem

no pounced what he meant is that for a protection paladin, and considering the effect of SoV procs, the speed of this weapon is horrible. Take a look at the bonebreaker scepter at 1.7. So the 1.6 speed reduces TPS and DPS from SoV

Comment by MaldibionOP

Perfect ;] BiS for an Orc Protection Warrior , expertise from racial , lighting speed , no stats wasted like HR or expertise on weapon ( hate that >;p ) onleh those main def/dodge/parry and socket to make it look even moar cute :> Stam granted from it is sick imo ... N looks kewl , so simply - BiS.

Comment by zebraheady

mk

Comment by brunorocha

for a moment there i thought this was a reference to TROLLbane (cant remember first name) but then i realized: its a reference to MURADIN! he is a dwarf and so he has a connection to the TROGGS and he was the king of the FROSTBORN!

Comment by Lindentree

When you attack slower, your rage comes in slower, leading to less excess rage to blow on Heroic Strikes.

Your Devastate, Shockwave, and all other abilities calculated on weapon damage and attack power will hit significantly harder, eventually evening out the threat lost from slower Heroic Strikes.

This weapon : Survival and general purposeSlower weapon : Threat and DPS

You're operating under the mistaken assumption that a tank's excess rage is due to their white swings.

On current content (or any content a wartank isn't overgeared for, really), the bulk of rage generation comes from being hit (or blocking/dodging/parrying on trash). A good wartank on current content will convert nearly 100% of his white swings to heroic strikes/cleaves, which means next to 0 rage generation from white hits - which naturally means that changing the speed of your weapon will have next to no effect on rage generation. On the other hand, a faster weapon will still help convert all that excess rage you're getting into dps and threat.

The only encounters in which a prot warrior should prefer a slow weapon over a fast for threat are:

When he isn't being attacked/damaged, e.g. the second offtank on Putricide 25, or offtanking Festergut

When he's getting hit by only one enemy, or two very slow enemies, for small amounts - e.g. vanilla raid bosses

And remember, weapons can be changed in combat without any penalty, so even on Prof and Fester you should only be using a slow weapon on the relevant sections.

Note also that the situations in which a slow weapon is appropriate are ones in which your survival is not an issue, which means it would be more beneficial to switch in a DPS-itemized weapon over a tank-itemized weapon. Therefore, there is no situation in which a warrior should seek a slower tank weapon over a fast tank weapon.

Comment by MontuckeyGuy84

I had two of these on my Frosty DK Orc tank and they made life very easy. We were running ICC 10's with 8 people and cleaning everything along the way!